I am writing to you to tell you that - in contrast to the US - the death of Ruth Schonthal has been a subject of discussion all over Europe. All big newspapers in Germany like the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Welt, Süddeutsche, Hamburger Abendblatt, Berliner Morgenpost and so on have published the news - some of them have published bigger obituaries.

The second biggest TV station in Germany Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) has reported about her death in the theatre channel, the biggest German press agency has informed about her death in a very extensive article which has been published in many smaller newspapers, the bigger new music magazines will report about it, and a lot of German cultural online magazines have published the news (www.kultur-online.net, www.bibermagazin.de, www.szon.de, www.enviam.de, www.web.de, www.moz.de), the biggest cultural radio station Deutschlandradio will report today.

In Austria the Standard (a big newspaper) and ORF (the biggest TV and radio station) have reported the news and an obituary, in the Netherlands nearly all newspapers have reported, in Switzerland the Online magazine codex flores has made an obituary and Martin Anderson will publish an article about Ruth Schonthal in The Independent (London).

These are only small examples, just to tell you that here in Europe there is no lack of attention but a big echo on the death of Ruth Schonthal.